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Yes, you have probably read such a comment many times so far. Especially some high forum ranked users are posting comments similar to that. Although i can not agree with it i, respect others opinion. Simply, some of us are faucet user and some are not. I personally met with bitcoin through faucets, and i still use them often since i am running a Xapo faucet list, therefore i am very active at this particular part of the forum. But why one would spend time reading topics here when they think it is a real waste of time? Is it possible that they are faucet owners but not active users, then why would someone shit where they eat?

I like faucets and i use them daily. I truly believe they are introducing a lot of new users to Bitcoin every single day.

I think it is mostly because the amount earned by doing faucet are very far from the amount you got from posting one paid post on this forum. Hence, the upper rank member will have greater tendency to have an opinion that faucet is time wasting or time consuming. I admit that I should agree that the earning from faucet is "laughable" if compared to the earning we got from signature campaign. But, that didn't mean I am not using faucet. I use some for killing time. While the reason why I still come to this section is simply because I'm still occasionally checking the new faucets, looking for high paying new one or at least to test them to see if I will like them and use them when I have some time to spare.

im not use faucet again, after i know how to earn money from campaig, mining, trading.
for me it's wasting my time, but for some newbie, i think its' still profitable than he sawting his time with playing game.

Pretty much this... But they forgot... it takes time to earn that rank to be able sign-up for campaigns: "Oh, you're better of signing up for a campaign". But there are no campaigns for newbs, or if there are, they are few and far between.

Yes, once you do get that rank, it is better to signature campaign, but up until then: faucets give free money.

And then there's the people who say "work for your bitcoins", but some of these people are campaigning or running sites of their own, plastering them all over the place. Funny. :P

yes i have read those comments many times but i don't care about they opinion because untill now i still use faucets and i could earn daily bitcoin from that even though the amount not so high also i'm so excited to trying if someone else announcement new faucets

This is exactly same with me.
I just like to explore, test, troubleshoot those faucets.
Faucet owners often are in need of good, constructive criticism, guidance
and sometimes pure cheering up :)
With help of some advertisement sites one can gather significant amount of referrals
and all of a sudden those earnings start to matter.
I'm always at the lookout for fun, fresh, clever faucets. Its almost free money after all.

99% faucets are waste of time. Most of faucets have minimum rewards from 50-200 satoshi, now look, you need to open faucet, solve captchas and or antibot, c/p address, claim, close faucet, open new one, and for that you need minimum 1 minut. So, you can earn in hour around 3000-12000, depending what faucets you are using. If you use 1440 min faucets, you can get 1000-2000 reward, but they are all with hard captchas, boring antibots on all page, safety limits etc, so lets say you can earn 20000/ hour. Now, be real, 20K satoshi is 0.12$, if you claim 10 hours(sleep, work) you will earn 1.2$. WOW! Say to your life good by for 1.2$. Is your life worth of 1.2$? Or if you earn 5$ daily from faucet, is your life worth it? Not to mention bad sides of faucets like high traffic, cpu-ram destroyer, possible malware, identity trackers etc. I am using only 2-3 good faucets. Only thing I can agree that faucets are very good for people who are new in bitcoin industry.
And what is most important, you cant progress in faucets, you have your maximum daily earnings from them and thats it. You say you like faucets, i don't see what is there to like, solving captcha, geting 0.0005$, solving another captcha 0,0005$, solving captcha 0.0005$....


There is no such thing as free money  ;D

I found $1500 once in an old box of food jars. ;p

Only free if you're lucky, heh.

This is just one of my wallets

Final Balance   1.47679498 BTC

Yes, complete waste of time.  ;D

What the hell are you talking about? I have found this address of yours:

https://blockchain.info/address/194kp7JSXkGMuJQjfXK4GCw3vLtFhy6fN7

With exactly this amount of BTC you just posted here. So, you have 1.47BTC, and you are claiming from faucets from 2015-01-22 15:35:33
So, its almost 19 months for 1.5BTC, and i see public note from site called earntomorrow, was that ponzi that you get some coins from?
Public Note: earntomorrow.com payment to Ray
Than public note from this "Withdraw to Racey from BitcoinField.Net - Most Trusted Investments In industry"
Public Note: Withdraw to king-racey from 14daily.com
Public Note: Withdraw to Invest1 from Profit12.com - 10%-12% Daily
You have negative trust, your bitcoin address is full of payouts from ponzi scam sites, and you are saying that this come from faucets?
Dont lie

That ponzi satoshis went out to cloud mining got burned, the rest was from faucets. ;D

And what about the negative trust do you not like? playing ponzis ?

Iam wasting about 1hour every day on faucets but its only some old working faucets like moonbitocin that i use.
Now a days iam clicking some ads on PTC sites to earn extra money for some african people.
I support them with my wee clicket satoshis so its no more time wasting for me to claim on faucets and ptc pages ;)

kind regards

For newbie people i think their is no wasting of time happening to them since they get free money their for startups and also so by that they can have capital to explore more the other sides of bitcoin in where they can earn more benifits with their very hard earn money from it. But if you are actually a semi pro and looking up for faucet well i can say its totally waste of time since you can earn that money easily in many various ways and earn with it good rather than faucet earnings wich give the big whales little earning.

Yea I think faucet site is waste of time if you only want calm faucet but if you advertise faucet sites it can be very profitable.It is best to advertise faucet sites in revenue shares sites which accept bitcoins because you earn money and you get free advertising space.

Advertising website faucets is really good, payments can be good, I have used faucet satoshis gained to do this, not ponzi money. thats for marlboroza's benefit

Just make sure, you do not see the same advert doing the rounds, find a new faucet then advertise it, worked for me many times, great passive income.

nowadays I see them as a waste of time . the payout rates declined so bad after google adsene banned faucets because it contradicts their policies. so if there is no high revenue for the owner, there is no high rewards. so after wasting many hours, you may not be able to make a dollar worth of bitcoin in a day. it is better to invest this time in learning a new skill that one can earn btc with it

This is true. I suggest learning some sort of programming language.

I also respect your opinion my friend, because it is undoubted that faucets can be very useful for newbies trying to get their first coins. But to be honest, most faucets decreased greatly their rewards when BTC reached around $400 last year, and nowadays most of them are paying very ridiculous amount of satoshi, their captchas are increasingly difficult and every day you need to spend more time to get the same satoshi, so I have decided to stop my faucets activity several months ago.

I only faucet from those who use the reCaptcha antibot things, they are quicker to fill out. I have a list I go through.

Of course there's the exceptional great page that uses Solve Media (which I detest), but it's worth it, because I know they pay.

Personally i found faucets very useful when i started using bitcoin i knew that they were paying only a few pennies of course but i was satisfied while i was receiving my first btc payments.
But i still use some faucets because i have many referrals and i enjoy a decent passive income,so i would say that they are a waste of time only for people who are not new in bitcoin and are not able to get referrals.

I still find them useful. Sure, there are better ways to earn, but sometimes you cannot do any of them. Others, you can work online while you do some faucets.

Funny thing is many of those who say it is a waste of time, are expecting Bitcoin to get to 10,000 $ (in which case the "tiny ammounts" earned through faucets would be worthwhile).

Haha! That is funny. Though, I don't see it getting that high.

Ive never wasted my time with faucets but my friend has , hes spent days and days collecting faucets and all he got was dust amounts. To me it is no where near worth the time. Id earn more by going over time and searching for loose change on the street and then converting that to bitcoin. All its useful for is to get something into your wallet to show a balance of anything other than 0. There are easier ways though.

before when i was just starting i spent my whole time in faucet because i thought im gonna make some good profit and then i realize i dont even earn a penny in one day lol  :D

Yes they are. If you keep clicking 24h/day you will only get a couple dollars if you are lucky.

There are too many faucet killer bots too. It is was already impossible to get anything from faucets before and now you can't even find a decent paying one.

I agree that Faucets are the stepping stone of newbies to BTCitcoin. I actually started there, not claiming 24hrs per day but only during my free time. Maybe the reason why several people see faucet a waste of time is because they knew other ways on earning Bitcoin with much higher profit (Ex. Signature campaigns, Trading) and/or because faucets already lowered their rewards unlike before. Yet, I still appreciate what faucets can give to me even I wasn't able to claim there often these past few months. That small amount I claimed and saved from faucets before gave me a higher profit today since bitcoin already have a bigger value. Still, thanks to faucets, especially to those that I used that were trusted and high paying ones :D

The way the faucet system works at the moment, they are quiet useless.
The bots would have to go away, adsense would have to reestablish faucets.
Then there is a chance that they are worth visiting again.

Now the faucet owners are just loosing too much money to bots and earn too less by ads.
The effect of those conditions is that the time a user puts in faucets in no way matches what he gets in return of satoshis.
Even newbies very soon realise that connection.
And then all those scamy faucets rose up with the ridiulously high payout ranges who do not pay anything in the end.

I really see no bright future for faucets at the moment.

I use only one faucet frebitco.in and I click it beacuse I'm online an it isn't a problem. Sometimes I win a larger amount and I use that for transtaction fees. I play it also beacuse I hope to win the jackpot of 0.3 BTC, it's free, why not?

The Donaldcoin one is great too! but I don't know if the bots are messing with it or not.

I think I would just do a manual payout, if I was a faucet owner; this way I can review each account.

Well, advertising faucets in lists and sites wont take you much time when you build up your site. Others are clicking and you get your ref share, so you don't have to waste your time in faucets, and it can be profitabile. But OP created thread "faucets are real waste of time?", and not "how to earn from faucets without visiting them  ;)"
So share with us, how much time do you spend daily clicking on faucets?

Four to five hours per day, sometimes longer, that was just a rough guess.
So, no waste of my time, I suggested adverts so people would learn, I like to help, that is why.

Yeah, Racey and I are both faucet junkies :p

I faucet several hours a day, though, I'm always testing 'new' ones.

I have to rest in between lunch, dinner, and to rest my mouse hand, sometimes I think its glued to my desk  :D

Faucet junkie I am since 2014-06-18 my first wallet still has some coin in it https://blockchain.info/address/1s3DP7QaqwsRrTEn6UQBd9zPCmmvv6KW3?offset=650&filter=0 first transaction at the bottom.

I can say that faucet is real waste of time if you use it alone. You have to refer some people to earn decent amount of bitcoins. And earnings from faucet can't satisfy you because in single claim you earn less than half cent in average. So, to earn atleast dollar you have to visit hundreds of faucet. And there is plenty of scam faucets, messagges about exceeded safety limits and hard captchas. I'm visiting few legendary faucets every hour, but from others I'm claiming only when I have some free time. It's many better ways to earn bitcoins than sit all day on faucets to earn maximum few dollars.

It's a waste of time for sure. This time can be used in a much more productive way.

Please I need urgent help. faucets have wasted my time for one whole year. I need better ways of earning bitcoins. Urgent help please.

faucets brought me a total of 0.1 btc for sure in this 5 years im doing it. Claiming! not ownling a faucet thats different. a good faucet will start to make money after 4/5 months but then you need to get your traffic stable so in the beginning its working with losses and hope you get them back in the end.. most faucets just dont live that long cause they dont know what they are doing

You can use the faucets to build a base amount which could be useful for your future ventures.

Use the forum to learn more and even more, do more research. There is no such thing as instant money - you have to help yourselves by studying, researching/analyzing about bitcoin, altcoins, ico and so on.

There are a lot of ways to make money, which might be simple, but not easy. It requires time and effort.

Have you got your social accounts and website ready - which might be helpful to make money initially - perhaps you might gain some referrals.

You are talking about past times, sure, whoever claimed from faucet 5 years ago made profit for sure and whoever bought bitcoin in 2009 for 100$ is now sitting on 200 million dollars. But it is wrong way of thinking!

I agree with you.
we dont know what gonna happen in the future

Every time I say same as what you said. Faucets are very good opportunity to get in crypto world. There are many opportunuties but faucets attract more new users and good thing to start understanding how crypto world works

The past time can repeat itself again. As you said, who bought Bitcoins in 2009 for $100 is now sitting on 200 million dollars. And who is using faucets now and accumulating their earnings can sit on a big fortune in some years. For who doesn't have money to buy Bitcoins or is too young to worry about earning real money to survive I think it's a good deal...

Try to make a real job. if you will still try faucet for some coins just try captcha..... you will solve lots in faucets why not just got paid for doing it and captcha pays better.

Some of us said play faucets is worthless but you can hear there any people get profit by play faucets during 2013-2017 and this is the real story mate.

It's profit but a profit that is just a dust balance and then they realize how stupid they were and just decided to leave after wasting so much of their time. The only people who earn in this way are the ones who posts their referrals with fake earnings.

I don't think so, because they don't really take much of your time and still giving out free bitcoins for using them.